Pope Benedict IV

Pope Benedict IV (840-1 July 903) was Pope from 900 to 903, succeeding Pope John IX and preceding Pope Leo V.

Biography
Benedict was born in 840 AD in Rome to Mammalus, a noble. Benedict was consecrated as pope in 900, and in 901 he crowned Louis the Blind as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire after the House of Karling disappeared. After the murder of Archbishop Fulk of Reims on 17 June 900, Benedict excommunicated Baldwin II of Flanders. He died in 903.